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Dear all,

Thank you all for visiting, reading and sharing the news with me on the Fukushima Appeal Blog. I’ve kept it running since February 2012. Unfortunately, I will need some break now to attend to some of my health issues.

I would like to thank this blog and its supporters for giving me an opportunity to become a part of the slowly awakening global community during this very important time of global change. I had zero knowledge of nuclear before the Fukushima disaster, and was and still am a just normal citizen. It’s been hard to see Japan becoming a criminal, immoral and authoritarian country since the Fukushima Disaster. So it’s been a huge awakening and healing process to have a platform to speak out instead of feeling powerless, angry and sad about it. With the new secret law that is going to be introduced in Japan soon, Japanese people will need more help than at any other time in its history from foreign bloggers, doctors and scientists. Please remember Fukushima. I hope that the more difficulties we may encounter, the stronger and connected we will become to fight against injustice and be able to act from our heart space. (Mia)

Wednesday, 31 July 2013

(Source) http://japanfocus.org/events/view/100
(Editor's note) Mr. Masamichi Nishio was resigned from a head of the Hokkaido Cancer center and has been working as an honorary director. Mr. Nishio is one of a few doctors who has been commenting on
the danger of internal exposure to ionizing radiation right from the
start, soon after the Fukushima disaster.

Japan's leading business journal Toyo
Keizai has published an article by Hokkaido
Cancer Center director Nishio Masamichi, a radiation treatment
specialist. The piece,
entitled “The Problem of Radiation Exposure Countermeasures for the
Fukushima Nuclear Accident: Concerns for the Present Situation”,
was published on June 27 and is consistent with the critical coverage
of the Fukushima crisis that has appeared in independent weekly
magazines, notably Shukan
Kinyobi, which have taken a strong anti-nuclear stance since
the March 11 earthquake-tsunami-meltdown, and have repeatedly focused
on the dangers of radiation exposure while calling for far-reaching
measures to protect those at risk.
Mr. Nishio begins by asserting that the Fukushima crisis has caused
Japan’s “myth of nuclear safety” to crumble. He has “grave
concern” for the public health effects of the ongoing radiation
leak.
Mr. Nishio originally called for “calm” in the days after the
accident. Now, he argues, that as the gravity of the situation at the
plant has become more clear, the specter of long-term radiation
exposure must be reckoned with.
Lamenting the poor state of public knowledge of radiation, Mr. Nishio
writes, “Japan, with its history of having suffered radiation
exposure from the atomic bombs, should have the most [direct]
knowledge of radiation, but in fact, in the approach to the nuclear
accident, has simply fallen into confusion.” He places blame on a
number of groups:

TEPCO executives, who he accuses
of having hidden the truth and prioritized the survival of the
company over public health.

Bureaucrats who were unable to put
together an accurate body of information about radiation effects
from which to formulate policy.

A prime minister and cabinet
lacking both leadership and an appropriate sense of urgency.

Politicians who sought to use the
crisis in intra- or inter-party struggles.

Nuclear industry lobbyists and “academic flunkies” (goyo
gakusha) of the government who built up the myth of nuclear
safety in the first place.

-Looking at these groups, he writes, “I just cannot feel any
hope for Japan’s future. These circumstances are simply tragic.”
He leaves the press out of his main list of culprits, but points
to the poor state of scientific knowledge among journalists as a
major factor behind what he views as their inability to bring
essential information to the public in a timely manner. He also
accuses the media establishment of prioritizing “avoiding a panic”
over “communicating the truth”.
Mr. Nishio provides a blunt and hard-hitting specialist
perspective on major government decisions. Here is a summary of some
of his major points:

Workers:

He accuses the authorities of
prioritizing their own convenience over the lives of nuclear
workers. Nishio argues that raising the exposure limit from 100 mSv
to 250 mSv can have serious health effects. He also states that
reports of poor food and sleeping conditions for workers show that
“… they are not even being treated like human beings.”

The JSDF helicopters that dropped
water on the Fukushima Daiichi reactors and spent fuel pools in the
days after March 11 were outfitted with the types of radiation
shields used in hospital x-ray rooms. Nisho says that this was
akin to “putting on a lead helmet in order to protect yourself
from radiation from space”. The planners, he argues, did not even
understand the difference between airborne radiation from a nuclear
accident and radiation used in the controlled environment of
hospital treatment.

Referring to “protective”
suits is a misnomer bordering on fraud in Nishio’s view since
nothing can offer total protection from radiation exposure.

A lack of nutrition and rest can
make workers more susceptible to radiation symptoms. Nishio
speculates that having the workers sleep together in gymnasium-like
barracks with no privacy is simply designed to keep them from
running away. Just 30 minutes from the site, he points out, there
are empty hotels which could offer those on the front line a quiet,
secure place to rest and recuperate.

He accuses TEPCO of being up to
the old tricks of the nuclear industry: giving dispatch and
temporary workers broken radiation monitors, only giving them
monitoring devices when they are working despite high levels of
radiation throughout the site, and so on.

Without accurate assessment of
internal radiation exposure through “whole body monitoring”,
there is no way to tell how much exposure workers are actually
suffering.

Measures must also be taken to
gauge different types of exposure (i.e. alpha rays from plutonium
and beta rays from strontium).

Around 5000 workers have worked at
the site since March. This number is high, but if radiation release
continues, 100 or even 1000 times that number may be needed over
time.

The MOX fuel in reactor number 3
is particularly dangerous but Nishio doubts that special measures to
protect workers are being taken.

“Peripheral Blood Stem Cell
Harvest” treatment has been put forward by doctors as a way to
minimize the chances of bone marrow deterioration among workers, but
this was turned down by the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan.
Nishio asserts that this is evidence that they simply do not grasp
the severity of the situation.

Apart from the iodine that they are being given, workers
should also be taking Radiogardase (Prussian blue insoluble
capsules). Not working to bring together the best preventative
medicine, Nishio asserts angrily, is an example of “graveyard
governance”.

Fukushima Residents:

The threat to public health is not simply a matter of distance from
Fukushima. Wind patterns and topography are even more important.

The release of data from the expensive SPEEDI system, was delayed
until March 23. This delay resulted in unnecessary radiation exposure.
“It is only conceivable that the high rate of radiation released was not
reported because of fears of a panic.”

Former Minister for Internal Affairs Haraguchi Kazuhiro has alleged
that radiation monitoring station data was actually three decimal places
greater than the numbers released to the public. If this is true, it
constitutes a “national crime”, in Nishio’s words. He follows with,
“Giving us the truth once is much more important than saying ‘hang in
there Japan!’ a million times.”

According to Japanese law, the rate of radiation exposure permitted
for ordinary citizens is 1 mSv / year. This has been raised to 20 mSv /
year in a “time of crisis”. Such a dramatic increase in permitted
exposure is akin to “taking the lives of the people lightly”. Nishio
believes that 20 mSv is too high, especially for children who are far
more susceptible to the effects of radiation.

Even more important than a permitted 20 mSv exposure rate, however,
is the lack of adequate provision for measuring internal radiation
exposure among the Fukushima population.

The American Academy of Sciences 2008 “Biological Effects of
Ionizing Radiation” report claims that there is no safe level of
radiation exposure. Despite this and other examples of leading research,
however, the Japanese government has moved on the assumption that there
is no evidence for increased cancer risk at under 100 mSv of exposure.
The European Committee on Radiation Risk argues
that existing risk models do not take internal exposure into account.
High rates of internal exposure will mean a dramatic increase in cancer
risk for Fukushima residents, with as many as 400,000 cases predicted by
2061. Nishio argues, however, that these calculations rest on some
shaky assumptions and that the number is too high. He believes strongly,
however, that internal radiation exposure must be taken seriously by
the Japanese government.

Comparing the 6.9 mSv exposure from a CT scan to a similar amount of
radiation exposure outside of a controlled environment is misleading.
Long term exposure and internal exposure can have unpredictable effects
on the human body. Comparisons with radiation used in cancer treatment
are also scientifically shaky.

The large amounts of radioactive waste water at the Fukushima
Daiichi site will contaminate the soil and water supplies, significantly
increasing the risk of internal radiation exposure.

- See more at: http://japanfocus.org/events/view/100#sthash.5endLXzP.dpuf

Fukushima Residents:

The threat to public health is not
simply a matter of distance from Fukushima. Wind patterns and
topography are even more important.

The release of data from the
expensive SPEEDI system, was delayed until March 23. This delay
resulted in unnecessary radiation exposure. “It is only
conceivable that the high rate of radiation released was not
reported because of fears of a panic.”

Former Minister for Internal
Affairs Haraguchi Kazuhiro has alleged that radiation monitoring
station data was actually three decimal places greater than the
numbers released to the public. If this is true, it constitutes a
“national crime”, in Nishio’s words. He follows with, “Giving
us the truth once is much more important than saying ‘hang in
there Japan!’ a million times.”

According to Japanese law, the
rate of radiation exposure permitted for ordinary citizens is 1 mSv
/ year. This has been raised to 20 mSv / year in a “time of
crisis”. Such a dramatic increase in permitted exposure is akin to
“taking the lives of the people lightly”. Nishio believes that
20 mSv is too high, especially for children who are far more
susceptible to the effects of radiation.

Even more important than a
permitted 20 mSv exposure rate, however, is the lack of adequate
provision for measuring internal radiation exposure among the
Fukushima population.

The American Academy of Sciences
2008 “Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation” report claims
that there is no safe level of radiation exposure. Despite this and
other examples of leading research, however, the Japanese government
has moved on the assumption that there is no evidence for increased
cancer risk at under 100 mSv of exposure. The European
Committee on Radiation Risk argues that existing risk
models do not take internal exposure into account. High rates of
internal exposure will mean a dramatic increase in cancer risk for
Fukushima residents, with as many as 400,000 cases predicted by
2061. Nishio argues, however, that these calculations rest on some
shaky assumptions and that the number is too high. He believes
strongly, however, that internal radiation exposure must be taken
seriously by the Japanese government.

Comparing the 6.9 mSv exposure
from a CT scan to a similar amount of radiation exposure outside of
a controlled environment is misleading. Long term exposure and
internal exposure can have unpredictable effects on the human body.
Comparisons with radiation used in cancer treatment are also
scientifically shaky.

The large amounts of radioactive waste water at the Fukushima
Daiichi site will contaminate the soil and water supplies,
significantly increasing the risk of internal radiation exposure.

Fukushima Residents:

The threat to public health is not simply a matter of distance from
Fukushima. Wind patterns and topography are even more important.

The release of data from the expensive SPEEDI system, was delayed
until March 23. This delay resulted in unnecessary radiation exposure.
“It is only conceivable that the high rate of radiation released was not
reported because of fears of a panic.”

Former Minister for Internal Affairs Haraguchi Kazuhiro has alleged
that radiation monitoring station data was actually three decimal places
greater than the numbers released to the public. If this is true, it
constitutes a “national crime”, in Nishio’s words. He follows with,
“Giving us the truth once is much more important than saying ‘hang in
there Japan!’ a million times.”

According to Japanese law, the rate of radiation exposure permitted
for ordinary citizens is 1 mSv / year. This has been raised to 20 mSv /
year in a “time of crisis”. Such a dramatic increase in permitted
exposure is akin to “taking the lives of the people lightly”. Nishio
believes that 20 mSv is too high, especially for children who are far
more susceptible to the effects of radiation.

Even more important than a permitted 20 mSv exposure rate, however,
is the lack of adequate provision for measuring internal radiation
exposure among the Fukushima population.

The American Academy of Sciences 2008 “Biological Effects of
Ionizing Radiation” report claims that there is no safe level of
radiation exposure. Despite this and other examples of leading research,
however, the Japanese government has moved on the assumption that there
is no evidence for increased cancer risk at under 100 mSv of exposure.
The European Committee on Radiation Risk argues
that existing risk models do not take internal exposure into account.
High rates of internal exposure will mean a dramatic increase in cancer
risk for Fukushima residents, with as many as 400,000 cases predicted by
2061. Nishio argues, however, that these calculations rest on some
shaky assumptions and that the number is too high. He believes strongly,
however, that internal radiation exposure must be taken seriously by
the Japanese government.

Comparing the 6.9 mSv exposure from a CT scan to a similar amount of
radiation exposure outside of a controlled environment is misleading.
Long term exposure and internal exposure can have unpredictable effects
on the human body. Comparisons with radiation used in cancer treatment
are also scientifically shaky.

The large amounts of radioactive waste water at the Fukushima
Daiichi site will contaminate the soil and water supplies, significantly
increasing the risk of internal radiation exposure.

- See more at: http://japanfocus.org/events/view/100#sthash.5endLXzP.dpuf

Fukushima Residents:

The threat to public health is not simply a matter of distance from
Fukushima. Wind patterns and topography are even more important.

The release of data from the expensive SPEEDI system, was delayed
until March 23. This delay resulted in unnecessary radiation exposure.
“It is only conceivable that the high rate of radiation released was not
reported because of fears of a panic.”

Former Minister for Internal Affairs Haraguchi Kazuhiro has alleged
that radiation monitoring station data was actually three decimal places
greater than the numbers released to the public. If this is true, it
constitutes a “national crime”, in Nishio’s words. He follows with,
“Giving us the truth once is much more important than saying ‘hang in
there Japan!’ a million times.”

According to Japanese law, the rate of radiation exposure permitted
for ordinary citizens is 1 mSv / year. This has been raised to 20 mSv /
year in a “time of crisis”. Such a dramatic increase in permitted
exposure is akin to “taking the lives of the people lightly”. Nishio
believes that 20 mSv is too high, especially for children who are far
more susceptible to the effects of radiation.

Even more important than a permitted 20 mSv exposure rate, however,
is the lack of adequate provision for measuring internal radiation
exposure among the Fukushima population.

The American Academy of Sciences 2008 “Biological Effects of
Ionizing Radiation” report claims that there is no safe level of
radiation exposure. Despite this and other examples of leading research,
however, the Japanese government has moved on the assumption that there
is no evidence for increased cancer risk at under 100 mSv of exposure.
The European Committee on Radiation Risk argues
that existing risk models do not take internal exposure into account.
High rates of internal exposure will mean a dramatic increase in cancer
risk for Fukushima residents, with as many as 400,000 cases predicted by
2061. Nishio argues, however, that these calculations rest on some
shaky assumptions and that the number is too high. He believes strongly,
however, that internal radiation exposure must be taken seriously by
the Japanese government.

Comparing the 6.9 mSv exposure from a CT scan to a similar amount of
radiation exposure outside of a controlled environment is misleading.
Long term exposure and internal exposure can have unpredictable effects
on the human body. Comparisons with radiation used in cancer treatment
are also scientifically shaky.

The large amounts of radioactive waste water at the Fukushima
Daiichi site will contaminate the soil and water supplies, significantly
increasing the risk of internal radiation exposure.

- See more at: http://japanfocus.org/events/view/100#sthash.5endLXzP.dpuf

Necessary Countermeasures:

Among people living in the same
area, rates of exposure can vary greatly based on lifestyle and
movement patterns. As a result, it is important that every resident
in at risk areas be given a device to monitor personal radiation
exposure. Apart from protecting individuals and allowing them to
make informed decisions about their safety, the data gathered can be
used in future medical research and in court cases that will no
doubt originate from the Fukushima Daiichi accident.

There is little conclusive
scientific data on the risks of low level radiation exposure. The
government, however, must not let this turn into a case of “we
don’t know so we can assume it is safe”. On the contrary, Nishio
argues that it is necessary to proceed under the assumption “we
don’t know so we must assume that it is dangerous”.

Residents must be given real time
radiation data as well as the best possible advice about how to
decrease their exposure.

While there are limits to what
this can achieve, dirt from schoolyards should be regularly removed
and replaced.

Strontium 90, which has a
half-life of 28.7 years and can have a serious impact on child bone
development, must be carefully measured.

In planning of future solutions,
radiation effects on the body should take priority over the
potential stresses associated with relocation.

The government should buy houses
and land in irradiated areas at pre-crisis market value and provide
additional aid for resettlement. Cleanup measures should be
undertaken and when the areas become safe, the government should
sell property back at reduced rates. A respect for both present
necessity and the deep attachment that many have to land that has
been in their families for many generations is necessary if the
government wants to convince nuclear refugees that they are being
treated fairly.

The government should make every effort to provide accurate
information, but should not forcibly remove elderly residents who
wish to remain in their homes.

Some Radical Thoughts:

The current crisis has called the
very foundation of Japanese society into question. An unprecedented
crisis calls for new ideas.

Dependence on nuclear energy,
which was slated to fulfill 50% of Japan’s energy needs in the
future, must be rethought.

Nuclear energy and energy policy
have never been adequately debated in Japan. Those with a vested
interest in nuclear energy were able to build up the “myth of
nuclear safety” virtually unchallenged and they continuously
covered up “inconvenient facts”.

Energy demands will continue to increase and simply trying to
convince the public to reduce energy use will not be enough. Now is
the time for new debate about how to meet Japan’s energy needs
while moving away from nuclear power.

Nishio’s article provides a realistic, nuanced portrait of the
problems currently facing Fukushima and Japan. The Japanese
government has addressed some of them on a limited scale, but serious
deficiencies remain. Nishio’s powerful statement, however,
appearing in a major establishment outlet, is indicative of a shift
in public discussion of radiation issues as more critical Japanese
scientists outside of the circle of “academic flunkies” (goyo
gakusha) make their voices heard.

Nishio’s
article provides a realistic, nuanced portrait of the problems
currently facing Fukushima and Japan. The Japanese government has
addressed some of them on a limited scale, but serious deficiencies
remain. Nishio’s powerful statement, however, appearing in a major
establishment outlet, is indicative of a shift in public discussion of
radiation issues as more critical Japanese scientists outside of the
circle of “academic flunkies” (goyo gakusha) make their voices heard.

- See more at: http://japanfocus.org/events/view/100#sthash.yeMQq02G.dpuf

Matthew Penney

Japan's leading business journal Toyo Keizai has published an article by Hokkaido Cancer Center director Nishio Masamichi, a radiation treatment specialist. The piece,
entitled “The Problem of Radiation Exposure Countermeasures for the
Fukushima Nuclear Accident: Concerns for the Present Situation”, was
published on June 27 and is consistent with the critical coverage of the
Fukushima crisis that has appeared in independent weekly magazines,
notably Shukan Kinyobi,
which have taken a strong anti-nuclear stance since the March 11
earthquake-tsunami-meltdown, and have repeatedly focused on the dangers
of radiation exposure while calling for far-reaching measures to protect
those at risk.

Nishio begins by asserting that the Fukushima crisis has caused
Japan’s “myth of nuclear safety” to crumble. He has “grave concern” for
the public health effects of the ongoing radiation leak.

Nishio originally called for “calm” in the days after the accident.
Now, he argues, that as the gravity of the situation at the plant has
become more clear, the specter of long-term radiation exposure must be
reckoned with.

Lamenting the poor state of public knowledge of radiation, Nishio
writes, “Japan, with its history of having suffered radiation exposure
from the atomic bombs, should have the most [direct] knowledge of
radiation, but in fact, in the approach to the nuclear accident, has
simply fallen into confusion.” He places blame on a number of groups:

TEPCO executives, who he accuses of having hidden the truth and prioritized the survival of the company over public health.

Bureaucrats who were unable to put together an accurate body of
information about radiation effects from which to formulate policy.

A prime minister and cabinet lacking both leadership and an appropriate sense of urgency.

Politicians who sought to use the crisis in intra- or inter-party struggles.

Nuclear industry lobbyists and “academic flunkies” (goyo gakusha) of the government who built up the myth of nuclear safety in the first place.

- See more at: http://japanfocus.org/events/view/100#sthash.hw2Czz24.dpuf

Matthew Penney

Japan's leading business journal Toyo Keizai has published an article by Hokkaido Cancer Center director Nishio Masamichi, a radiation treatment specialist. The piece,
entitled “The Problem of Radiation Exposure Countermeasures for the
Fukushima Nuclear Accident: Concerns for the Present Situation”, was
published on June 27 and is consistent with the critical coverage of the
Fukushima crisis that has appeared in independent weekly magazines,
notably Shukan Kinyobi,
which have taken a strong anti-nuclear stance since the March 11
earthquake-tsunami-meltdown, and have repeatedly focused on the dangers
of radiation exposure while calling for far-reaching measures to protect
those at risk.

Nishio begins by asserting that the Fukushima crisis has caused
Japan’s “myth of nuclear safety” to crumble. He has “grave concern” for
the public health effects of the ongoing radiation leak.

Nishio originally called for “calm” in the days after the accident.
Now, he argues, that as the gravity of the situation at the plant has
become more clear, the specter of long-term radiation exposure must be
reckoned with.

Lamenting the poor state of public knowledge of radiation, Nishio
writes, “Japan, with its history of having suffered radiation exposure
from the atomic bombs, should have the most [direct] knowledge of
radiation, but in fact, in the approach to the nuclear accident, has
simply fallen into confusion.” He places blame on a number of groups:

TEPCO executives, who he accuses of having hidden the truth and prioritized the survival of the company over public health.

Bureaucrats who were unable to put together an accurate body of
information about radiation effects from which to formulate policy.

A prime minister and cabinet lacking both leadership and an appropriate sense of urgency.

Politicians who sought to use the crisis in intra- or inter-party struggles.

Nuclear industry lobbyists and “academic flunkies” (goyo gakusha) of the government who built up the myth of nuclear safety in the first place.

- See more at: http://japanfocus.org/events/view/100#sthash.hw2Czz24.dpuf

Jul. 01, 2011

Matthew Penney

Japan's leading business journal Toyo Keizai has published an article by Hokkaido Cancer Center director Nishio Masamichi, a radiation treatment specialist. The piece,
entitled “The Problem of Radiation Exposure Countermeasures for the
Fukushima Nuclear Accident: Concerns for the Present Situation”, was
published on June 27 and is consistent with the critical coverage of the
Fukushima crisis that has appeared in independent weekly magazines,
notably Shukan Kinyobi,
which have taken a strong anti-nuclear stance since the March 11
earthquake-tsunami-meltdown, and have repeatedly focused on the dangers
of radiation exposure while calling for far-reaching measures to protect
those at risk.

Nishio begins by asserting that the Fukushima crisis has caused
Japan’s “myth of nuclear safety” to crumble. He has “grave concern” for
the public health effects of the ongoing radiation leak.

Nishio originally called for “calm” in the days after the accident.
Now, he argues, that as the gravity of the situation at the plant has
become more clear, the specter of long-term radiation exposure must be
reckoned with.

Lamenting the poor state of public knowledge of radiation, Nishio
writes, “Japan, with its history of having suffered radiation exposure
from the atomic bombs, should have the most [direct] knowledge of
radiation, but in fact, in the approach to the nuclear accident, has
simply fallen into confusion.” He places blame on a number of groups: - See more at: http://japanfocus.org/events/view/100#sthash.hw2Czz24.dpuf

Japanese utility, and the public, in dark about crippled nuclear plant Tokyo Times, Jul 30, 2013* Tokyo Electric Power confronts many unknowns at crippled plant* Japanese public also in the dark over clean-up, say critics* Utility says radiation makes it hard to reach all parts of facility* Says trying to explain clean-up problems to the public* Chair of third party panel blames incompetence, not deliberate policyBy Antoni Slodkowski and Mari Saito
- Two and a half years after the worst nuclear disaster since
Chernobyl, the operator of Japan’s wrecked Fukushima plant faces a
daunting array of unknowns.

Why the plant intermittently emits steam; how groundwater seeps
into its basement; whether fixes to the cooling system will hold; how
nearby groundwater is contaminated by radioactive matter; how toxic
water ends up in the sea and how to contain water that could overwhelm
the facility’s storage tanks.

What is clear, say critics, is that Tokyo Electric Power Co is
keeping a nervous Japanese public in the dark about what it does know.
The inability of the utility, known as Tepco, to get to grips with
the situation raises questions over whether it can successfully
decommission the Fukushima Daiichi plant, say industry experts and
analysts.
“They let people know about the good things and hide the bad things.
This culture of cover up hasn’t changed since the disaster,” said
Atsushi Kasai, a former researcher at the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute.
Tepco’s handling of the clean-up has complicated Japan’s efforts to restart its 50 nuclear power plants, almost all of which have been idled since the disaster over local community concerns about safety……
Tepco’s improvised efforts to stop radioactive water leaking into the sea include sinking an 800-meter-long steel
barrier along the coastline, injecting the ground with solidifying
chemicals and possibly even freezing the ground with technology used in
subway-tunnel construction.
Industry experts are not impressed.
“You can’t do temporary fixes in nuclear power,” said Goto. “They say everything’s fine until bad data comes out.”

I live in the UK and just
over 2 Years ago I was working as a London motorcycle despatch rider,
delivering small but urgent supplies around the UK. Even though there
was a difficult financial position in the country I was doing well and
had a stable financial situation and my Taxes and debts were being
well-managed.

Then in March 2011, there
was a disaster at Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Power Plant. As a European
with experience of Chernobyl, I expected that milk and leafy vegetables
would be off the menu for a few months while the iodine 131 became
inert. But that didn’t happen, even though Euractive reported that
pregnant women and young children avoid milk and leafy vegetables.
Though CRIIRAD of France reported this issue in 12 April 2011, no other
media reported it and so these vulnerable groups in Europe or America
were not informed and were put at risk.

I decided that in mid April
of 2011, as the media censorship began, to begin to blog and research
the actual situation on the ground in Japan and elsewhere. I discovered
layers of cover ups and lies. So I attempted to find the truth of the
matter for myself with my fellow bloggers on enenews.com.

I began posting on
enenews.com for a year or so and had been personally hacked twice
concerning my mobile phone and found out that after being hacked by a
private person/s that an investigation had been started on me instead of
the offending IP address that Vodaphone had captured of one of the
hackers. My other hack was by the Police and was admitted to me via my
local Police station in Twickenham. I have crime numbers for both these
incidents.

Also, my British Telecom
land line and broadband had a ” box” fitted after i changed a modem and i
was told this by an Indian out of hours phone worker. After that call i
was unable to access the out of hours service and had to wait to sort
out problems Monday to Friday and only during office hours.

During this initial period I
started to support Christopher Busby the scientist. As I tried to blog
his videos articles etc, situations such as having my broadband switched
off and on other occasions I developed internet problems. This resulted
in me having to post an urgent article on the blog by going to the
local library and using that on an anonymous “visitors pass” to use the
internet.

After I signed on to my blog
and posted the article the library computer screen “jumped” around
about after 5 minutes, but i had posted the article.. The next time I
went to use the Library (Teddington) they had changed their policy and
had been told by the Richmond Council IT manager to NOT use the
temporary passes. You have to input your ID into the system first ,
rendering the Library system useless to activist posters and researchers
in the UK who are on the Domestic Extremist Database (NDEU).

I also sent researched
information to various NGO`s in support of their aims and objectives ie.
CRIN UK and various Japanese NGO`s

My mobile was hacked by non
government sources and my data charges went up as they were repeatedly
checking the emails via my phone. The Vodaphone engineer recommended I
turn off my mobile data as that would be the only way it could be
stopped. This limited my access to Facebook, Twitter and other sources
of instant media contact.

I tried getting a new phone
and sim. This was effective for 2 days . My texts and connection got
worse after a call to my friend.

After i started posting on nuclear-news.net in
September 2012, I was targeted by Aviva insurance for massive rate
hikes and threats to dissolve cover giving me no valid reasons . This
stopped me paying a tax bill and threatened my work situation. Aviva
insures the nuclear industry.

It might also be worth
pointing out that the heads of Military Intelligence 5 and 6 are offered
directorships on Insurance and financial corporations as well as
supplying security advice and logistics as well as a way into
TEMPORA/PRISM to mitigate insurance liabilities such as at the Fukushima
Daichi nuclear meltdowns and the BP Gulf oil spill.

MI5 now overseas the Domestic Extremist database in the UK.

I was placed on the Domestic
extremist database and have had unfair treatment, I believe, resulting
in points and fines for minor motoring infractions. This never happened
before as I had a clean licence and good insurance history. I was also a
priority driver due to the nature of my work with the NHS etc.

I have received unusual
threatening phone calls from Aviva Insurance underwriters too. It is
worth noting, and worryingly, Aviva were able to cancel my insurance by
text as I was riding my motorbike whilst i was delivering urgent blood
to the NHS laboratories. I only discovered it when I got home some hours
later. If I had gone past an ANPR camera I would have immediately lost
the motorcycle according to UK law. To get the insurance cover, I had a
quote of a 300 percent increase in my motorcycle work policy and no real
answers as to why? I had to accept the decision or have no insurance.

I have had a number of
emails accounts hacked including one based in Iceland (that i thought
was safe). Also, emails I send to people probably often do not get there
or I do not often get a reply.

my emails seem to work well
enough with people I contact regularly but not always but I think that
people I contact now and again may not receive mail. It’s really hard to
tell but I rarely get a courtesy “received” email or reply.. I have
very long delays sometimes on online messaging services. Odd problems
with You Tube occur as well, especially disappearing comments and
personal messages.

There is some hard evidence of email blocking .

I had a computer burn out
and the following week I saw someone messing remotely with my other
computer. Afterwards the other computers registry had been corrupted to
stop the internet working (i actually saw the remote operator accessing
windows programmes and saw the mouse moving on its own volition). I
quickly learnt Linux on a newly acquired laptop and have seen a number
of improvements.

I also recieved a similar
email to the Bahraini activists who found FINSPY attached. I
unfortunately opened the email on the hacked and now completely
destroyed Windows OS computer.

I also, strongly believe
that the security services or some private contractor contacted one of
my main employers and got me laid off for posting a George Galloway MP
article. There is some good evidence for this.

I have now got to the point
of being made homeless and owing debts. I had arranged to sort out the
debts in 3 months but the financial organisations reneged on the
agreements and I have got many calls and letters even though no court
judgements are yet in place. Though that will change soon. Then the debt
collection firms will target me.

I will have to live rough
and earn only cash jobs. This limits my options in the recession hit UK.
I feel that I want to stay and fight this oppression in the UK as it is
worrying how someone’s life can be ruined at the touch of a button, a
phone call or a keystroke. I have friends and family in the UK and want
to fight for their freedoms and privacies as well as others.

It might be worth noting that I was refused insurance for a camper van by 6 insurance companies.

As someone who has done an
MA level university course in psychology (Brunel UK) i feel i should
comment on the psychological impacts of these strategies on the poor
unsuspecting blogger or journalist.

During the course of my
blogging i have been fortunate to talk with professional journalists who
have commended me on accumulating articles that the main stream media
misses. They may not agree with everything I post but they appreciate at
least some of my research. They have told me that they are unable to
write the sort of posts i present as the media outlets will not touch
anything that might effect the advertisers or costs from legal
challenges by corporations and governments. This leaves Journalists
fearing for their jobs, mortgages, at risk of intimidation and in some
cases worrying for their lives.

This leaves the blogger
posting from safer countries as the means of getting neglected news to
the masses. Many of these articles are to do with human rights and
censored subjects such as nuclear issues as well as a raft of other
areas to do with health, rights and well being.

As the blogger gets noticed
by the censors, it appears that he or she will receive more overt
surveillance practises such as echo on the phone or disruption of the
internet. This would be the first stages of open harassment by the
state.

The next level of
surveillance appears to be things like hacking on-line phone accounts
and intercepting calls and the police pretending to be employers (to
acquire information or just plain terrify the person targeted). In my
case it would appear that private security firms can get involved at
this stage, with separate data mining operations as well as the national
security services efforts.

The third level is a direct
action approach using subtle threats during phone calls and financial
attack using any weaknesses. In my case this was very successful and
made me homeless and un-creditworthy (after many years of successful
business) within about 6 months.

For anyone thus attacked
they will then have to rely on their friends and family. But there is a
dilemma. In an age of well published state hacking, especially in the
UK, where extremists families and friends will be targeted for “Data
mining” as had happened to me and others.

Some evidence has become
apparent that my family in Norway were targeted to let me know the reach
of this surveillance and hacking system .

Of course for most bloggers
doing this sort of work need to consider the people around them and have
to withdraw contact for the privacy and safety of their friends and
family. Even encrypted emails show a link that can be assessed by a
security analyst. This sort of power sends a chilling effect to people
around activists in the UK.

And a normal response might
be to find like minded people or groups to get support from, but there
is so much politics and differing aims and objectives that not all
activists are catered for within the limited fractured groups. Also, the
UK police have been placing agitators in these groups rendering them
largely untrustworthy by most activists.

So many activists and
bloggers are forced to work largely on their own with little protection
from excess policing or targeting by private security firms employed by
states and corporations.

Here is an example of the
director of an Australian Uranium mining company called Palladin using
the services of a UK based legal corporate firm called Ashursts
attacking the blog i post on at nuclear-news.net. The attack is aimed at
the 75 year old retired owner. nuclear-news.net had only 130
subscribers worldwide at the time! The newspaper had to withdraw the
article in support of the bloggers right to freedom of expression.

This legal matter is
ongoing, but will it may effect our position as being in good standing
with google, to being filtered out, even without a court case?

The UK is also bringing in
an internet filter that may be used to block access to certain websites
including those deemed “extremist”, the same word that is used in
connection with many community and environmental groups etc. Indeed the
same word that has obviously been applied to me also.

This will have a particular
chilling effect on our young people if they are denied the alternative
voice and have to rely on corporate and government guided media for
their information concerning national and world issues until they are
18. The loose definition of words and meanings cause fear and
uncertainty and cause alarm concerning the informed intellectual
capacity of our youth in the future..

Added to the fact that the
media is often showing these groups in the worst light to the public at
large, this further alienates the activist or blogger from friends and
potential allies. Information that these bloggers try to get out is
slandered as the catch all “conspiracy” theory or simply ill informed.
Added to that powerful media outlets pour out stories as counter claim
against activists concerns without the opportunity for balanced informed
and unmoderated democratic discussion.

I will stop here concerning
the psychological impacts on individuals and groups as this part of my
deposition requires too much space and i suspect UNESCO has a few
psychologists and sociologists that will add to this UNESCO report i am
sure.

I hope this deposition will reach you and I hope it will be useful to for your report.

Can you confirm your remit
or limitations on this deposition concerning the anti nuclear activists
component in particular? And send me a note of confirmation of receipt
of this email?

This is the link i am worrying about and hope that i will not be censored owing to “certain limitations”.

“…The International Atomic Energy Agency and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization recognize that they may find it necessary to apply certain limitations for the safeguarding of confidential information furnished to them…”

On 5/12/2013, honorary director of Hokkaido cancer center, Mr. Masamichi Nishio
commented primary radiology will no longer be developed in Japan. He had
a speech in Koriyama city Fukushima.
He stated,
Primary radiology is not profitable, most of the
universities stopped investing into the study since Japanese national
universities became independent administrative corporation. Radiation
Effects Research Foundation dominated the study by spending budget of
the ministries. However, they only employ the researchers from
“pro-nuclear” side. Primary radiology can’t be expected to develop as
science anymore.Last Autumn, a person from Fukushima died. He left his will to offer his organs for dissection of primary radiology.However there is no institute to dissect his organs and analyze for radionuclides in Japan.

*Wholebody counter has been used for cover-up for the danger of internal exposure Part 3

Sunday, 28 July 2013

(Source)

More
than 1,900 Japanese workers at the Fukushima nuclear plant that
exploded last year and still leaking dangerous radioactive materials
to the ocean, have been exposed to unsafe levels of radiation in
their thyroid glands, media reports said.Their radiation levels
are more than 10 times the number previously announced by the plant
operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), The Asahi Shimbun
reported.TEPCO had reported in December that radiation doses
topped 100 millisieverts -- the widely accepted threshold for an
increase in the risk of cancer -- in 178 people, with a maximum
reading of 11,800 millisieverts.But that number covered only a
fraction of those who have been exposed. The workers themselves say
TEPCO has provided little or no information about radiation doses in
their thyroid glands. The new figure is based on a review of an
expanded number of study subjects.TEPCO and its partner companies
not only re-evaluated the readings from thyroid gland dose tests, but
they also estimated doses when the amount of radioactive iodine that
entered the body was unavailable. These estimates were based on
cesium intake amounts, the airborne iodine-to-cesium ratio on the
days they worked, and other data.The latest study showed that
doses topped the 100-millisievert mark in 1,973 workers. In one
worker, the estimated thyroid gland dose increased by more than 1,000
millisieverts during the review.A thyroid gland dose reflects the
amount of internal exposure to radioactive iodine that has entered
the body through inhalation and other processes, the paper said. It
took TEPCO 28 months since the earthquake and tsunami on March 11,
2011, caused the nuclear disaster to learn that so many workers have
been exposed to cancer-inducing levels of radiation doses in their
thyroid glands.

Mr.
Masamichi Nishio is one of a few doctors who has been commenting on
the danger of internal exposure to ionizing radiation right from the
start, soon after the Fukushima disaster. He is former head of the
Cancer Centre in Sapporo in Hokkaido. He also works at Kyodo
Clinic in Fukushima city occasionally. The Kyodo Clillnic is the only
independent clinic in Fukushima prefecture and it is run by citizens
and on donations.

Mr. Nishio
gives the service of measuring radiation the level using a wholebody
counter. It takes 30 min. while the one run at hospitals
and clinic that has connection with the Fuksuhima Health Survey
including Hirata Central Hopital (Prof. Hayano is in charge)
only measure for 2-5 min. ( The longer the time of
measurement and more acurrately the machine can detect
radiation from the body. Mrs.
Nishio runs the WBC measurement service at his cancer centre once a
week. Because it takes 30min, he can only do 10 people a week.
Also, if people in Fukushima prefecture would like to go to his
clinic, travelling costs would be more than £150. And the cost
is not free while hospitals that have ties with the Fukushima Health
Survey are free for under 18 years old. Therefore, only people who
could afford to pay the cost could come to his centre. (Editor's
note)

With the above
reasons we should re-evaluate any data or reports that are based on
wholebody counter measured by the Fukushima Health Survey.

VI) 東大ＷＢＣ研究の矛盾点Controversies on WBC Study by Tokyo University
東大ホールボディーカウンター研究の矛盾点
Controversies on WBC Study by Tokyo University
ベラルーシのエートス計画では、医師も協力し、ホールボディーカウンター（WBC）によるモニタリングで内部被曝線量が下がるのを成功裡に記録して
いたと言います（とはいっても最も大事な健康の改善はみられていなかったわけですが。エートスの章を参考にしてください。
http://savekidsjapan.blogspot.jp/2013/01/blog-post_8310.html）In ETHOS Belarus, residents’ internal radiation had been measured
with whole body counter and the report said that the figures were
successfully decreased, though the most important health improvement was
not reflected by it. Please see http://savekidsjapan.blogspot.jp/2013/01/blog-post_8310.html
さらに、このＷＢＣでは、ガンマ線しか計測できず、アルファ線、ベータ線核種は検出できません。内部被曝でより危険なのは、体を突き抜けるガンマ線ではなく、アルファ線、ベータ線核種ですから、本来は尿検査が必要です。
WBC can measure only gamma rays and cannot detect alpha and beta
rays, which are much more harmful on human bodies as internal exposure
sources. To detect these, we need to conduct urine test.
福島エートスでも、ご存知かとは思いますが、福島の避難地域から外れた南相馬市でも、ＷＢＣによる体内被曝の調査が行われ、2012年8月に米国医師会（ＪＡＭＡ）で発表されています。
As you probably know, in Minimisoma city, which is outside of
evacuation zone, Dr. Masaharu Tsubokura from Tokyo University Medical
Science Institute, measured the residents’ internal exposure using WBC
and submitted the thesis to JAMA in August 2012 (http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1346169).
この論文の著者の東京大学医科学研究所の坪倉正治医師には、私も沖縄で2011年11月に放射能の勉強会でお会いしております。そこで私は直接氏に
バンダジェフスキー論文を読んだことがあるかと聞いたところ、「読みました。実は私も大変困っています。福島では、人が食べるものは全数検査しなければい
けないが、機材が足りません。」とおっしゃっていました。
I met Dr. Tsubokura in person at a radiation seminar held in Okinawa
and directly asked him whether he had read paper by Dr. Bandazhevsky.
His answer was, “Yes, I have. As a matter of fact, I feel troubled.
Every food should be measured before the local residents would eat, but
we do not have enough equipment.”
また、坪倉医師は、2012年2月に書いたご自身のブログhttp://medg.jp/mt/2012/02/vol410wbc.htmlにバ
ンダジェフスキーの研究について言及しています。この中で、坪倉医師は、はっきりとバンダジェフスキーによれば、10Bq/kgー20Bq/kgで心臓に
影響が出ているという報告があるから、病院で心電図の検査もやり始めた、住民の長期的なフォローアップが必要であると記しています。
In Febrary 2012, Dr. Masaharu Tsubokura mentioned about Dr. Bandazhevsky’s study in his own blog, http://medg.jp/mt/2012/02/vol410wbc.html.
In here, he stated that long-time follow-up will be needed including
electrocardiogram test for residents since there is a report by
Bandazhevsky that says 10Bq/kgー20Bq/kg cesium concentration in body
causes heart malfunction.
ところが、この坪倉医師の8月の研究報告では、大人でも小児でも最も高い人は50Bq/kg以上、10Bq/kgー20Bq/kg以上はざらに見ら
れます。これは大変なことかと思いますが、なぜか論文の結論としては、これらのベクレルの体内濃度からシーベルトに換算し、１．０７ｍＳＶを浴びた１人を
除いてすべての住民の実効預託線量は１ｍＳV以下であり、被曝レベルは低いと結論されています。
According to the JAMA report by Dr. Tsubokura in August 2012, there
were even people with more than 50Bq/kg and many with 10Bq/kgー20Bq/kg
among adults and children. This figure is of grave concern itself in
the light of Dr. Bandazhevsky’s study. However, strangely, the
conclusion of Dr. Tsubokura’s study was the residents’ exposure level
was low, with all the subjects’ exposure less than 1mSV with only one
exception of 1.07mSV effective committed dose.
不思議なことに、その後坪倉氏がバンダジェフスキーをでたらめと言っているというサイトが作られていました。そのサイトの中では、上述の福島の地方
局ＴＶユー福島の報道局長の大森真氏（http://savekidsjapan.blogspot.jp/2013/01/medias-
sins.html参照）が、坪倉氏がバンダジェフスキーを酷評していたというコメントしているのです。坪倉医師が私に直接話したこととも、上述のネット
で坪倉医師が書いたこととはまったく正反対の記述です。
However, quite strangely, an internet site was made in May 2012,
saying that Bandazhevsky was denied by Dr. Tsubokura quite harshly (http://togetter.com/li/303308). This was stated by Mr. Makoto Omori(See http://savekidsjapan.blogspot.jp/2013/01/medias-sins.html),
the chief of broadcast section at TV You Fukushima. What Mr. Omori was
saying was quite contrary to the saying I heard from Dr. Tsubokura
directly.
この体内濃度が初期被ばくによるものなのか、または飲食物によるものなのか、判断できませんが、いずれにせよ、既にこれだけの体内濃度になった人に、さらに汚染された空気を吸わせ、食べ物を食させるのは殺人行為だと思います。
Nobody knows whether this cesium concentration in body came from
initial exposure or food intake afterwards, but in any case, it would be
a act of murder not to relocate residents making them breath
contaminated air and consume contaminated foods.
このＷＢＣを使った研究については、東京大学医科学研究所の上昌弘特任教授が責任者となっており、研究目的には、「原発災害で大きな影響を受けた福
島県浜通り地方において、住民の健康不安を解消する目的、および低線量被ばくを含む原発災害が人体へ及ぼす影響について調査するため、一般健診および健康
相談会を行う。」と書かれてあります。
As for the WBC study, Professor Masahiro Kami, Tokyo University
Medical Science Institute, is in charge. Amazingly, the purpose of the
study says;
“The purpose of this study is to conduct medical checkup and medical
consultations to resolve anxiety of the residents in costal line area in
Fukushima greatly damaged by the nuclear disaster and to study the
effects of nuclear disaster on human bodies including low-level
radiation effects.”
低線量被曝が人体へ及ぼす影響について調査すると明記されているのです！これは放射線を使った人体実験に他なりません！
It clearly stipulates the purpose as studying low-level radiation
effects on human body! This is nothing but a human experiment using
radiation!
さらには、上昌広教授のこういうセリフを聞いた人がいます。
「福島市も郡山市も、とてもじゃないが避難させられない。将来奴らは、集団訴訟とかするんだろうなあ」
「南相馬はあぶないよ。」
Moreover, one of my friend’s acquaintances and my own acquaintance heard Professor Kami’s personal statement as follows;
“It would be impossible to evacuate residents in Fukushima City and
Kohriyama City. I guess in the future, they would file a class action
lawsuit.”
“Minamisoma City is at risk. “(Minamisoma is one of the cities along
the costal area of Fukushima where the WBC study is being conducted by
Professor Kami himself.)
この危ないと言っている地域で、上昌弘教授は、部下の坪倉氏に、子供達まで含む住民を使った低線量被曝の研究を進めさせているわけです。これはまさに時間軸の延びた７３１部隊の人体実験に他ならないと私は思います。
In this area at risk, Professor Kami himself is conducting WBC study
including local children and pregnant women with his subordinate doctor
Masahiro Tsubokura. This is nothing but a recurrence of Unit 731 evil
human experiment with prolonged time span.
そして彼らが所属している東京大学医科学研究所は、７３１部隊研究の拠点の一つでもありました！以下のサイトを参照ください。http://savekidsjapan.blogspot.jp/2013/01/japan-victim-and-perpetrator.html
As a matter of fact, Tokyo University Medical Science Institute used to be a hub for Unit 731 human experiment studies. http://savekidsjapan.blogspot.jp/2013/01/japan-victim-and-perpetrator.html
どうかこれらの犯罪的な東大の医師たちの悪魔の実験を即刻辞めさせ、危険な地域にいる住民、特に妊婦、子供たちを安全な場所に移動させてください。
I sincerely ask for international organizations to stop these Tokyo
University doctors’ medical experiments and please relocate the
residents in high risk area, especially pregnant women, children.
---------------------------------------------------------

*Wholebody
counter has been used for cover-up for the danger of internal
exposure - Prof. Katsuhiko Yagasaki of Ryukyus University WBC

VIDEO Anger mounts at Fukushima plant operator over radiation leaks http://www.euronews.com/2013/07/26/you-don-t-know-what-you-re-doing-fukushima-plant-operator-told/
Anger is growing at the operators of Fukushima, as an increasing
number of reports indicate that Japan’s crippled nuclear plant does not
have radiation risks under control.
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which runs Fukushima, admitted
on Monday that contaminated water could be leaking into the sea. The
firm had persistently denied that this was the case, despite repeated
warnings from nuclear experts and marine biologists.
Dale Klein, Chairman of the Nuclear Reform Monitoring Committee
criticised the firm for how it has been communicating with the public:
“These actions indicate that you do not know what you’re doing, and
that you do not have a plan, and you’re not doing all you can to protect
the environment and the people,” Klein told TEPCO. Anger is growing at
the operators of Fukushima, as an increasing number of reports indicate
that Japan’s crippled nuclear plant does not have radiation risks under
control.

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which runs Fukushima, admitted
on Monday that contaminated water could be leaking into the sea. The
firm had persistently denied that this was the case, despite repeated
warnings from nuclear experts and marine biologists.
Dale Klein, Chairman of the Nuclear Reform Monitoring Committee
criticised the firm for how it has been communicating with the public:
“These actions indicate that you do not know what you’re doing, and
that you do not have a plan, and you’re not doing all you can to protect
the environment and the people,” Klein told TEPCO.

Saturday, 27 July 2013

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfcKSPcBVpA
(Translation by Mia)
In Nihonmatsu-city in
Fukushima prefecture the Fukushima Health Survey Team has been
carrying out the thyroid examination for children since last fall.
But many parents in Nihonmatsu-city had been feeling doubtful
about the accuracy of the thyroid examination. Recently Mrs. Rui
Sasaki who runs "Doho nursery school with her husband in Nihonmatsu-city
organized the independent temporary clinic for the thyroid
examination in her nursery school in response to many parents. Two of
her children were also examined. One of her sons, Jushin got a
different result-there is some abnormality were fund in his
thyroid although according to the Fukushima Health Survey, it was A1.
Not only her son, there are many other children got different
results from the Fukushima Health Survey.

(1m10s) Mrs. Sasaki
said, "I didn't trust the Fukushima Survey examination from the beginning
because it only took 10 secondsto examine the thyroid, therefore
they won't find anything wrong in the thyroid".

(Editor's comment)

A1 – there is no
abnormality.

A2 – there is some cysts
in the thyroid.

B1 – they are going to
develop thyroid cancer or they already got thyroid cancer.

4m20s- 福島医大の理事長室で、話し合われたこと。

What was discussed in the
Director's office in the Fukushima Medical University.

I’ve been thinking that
there would be misleading diagnosis in the thyroid echo examination in the
future for sure, by which compensation issue would arise. The
current compensation policy covers only the individual. I think
all doctors who examine the thyroid should be really covered under the Fukushima Medical
University so that they wouldn't get sued by their patients. I would
like to ask you to do something about that.

Mr.
Fujishima：甲状腺検査の賠償責任保険は、個人で加入されているのとは、別に入っていただくことにしたい。

I would suggest that all
doctors who give diagnoses for the thyroid examination to join a separate insurance to cover the cost for
misleading diagnoses.

I suppose the cost for them
to join the separate insurance would be covered by the budget from
the Fukushima Health Management Center. I also think that legal
department need to be set up within the Fukushima Health Management
Center, so I’m working on that, too.

Later Mr. Fujishima’s
suggestion was agreed with the Fukushima prefecture officials and
decided to pay by the tax payer’s money.

6m30s- 誤診が発生した場合。
支払い限度額は１０億円と設定されていた。Our
planet TV acquired the document that says how to protect doctors
legally when their misleading diagnoses were sued. 10 million yen
(=1 billion yen?) was set up.

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ＩＩ 甲状腺の健康調査結果と医師たちによる沈黙
II: Thyroid Examination Results and Silence among Japanese Doctors
健康上重大な影響が既に出ていることは、福島県が現在行っている県民健康管理調査における未成年者の甲状腺の異様に高い数値が最も顕著に物語っています。結節やのう胞が認められた者が43%、6ー11歳の女児に至っては50%を超えるという数値が見られたのです1。
The most prominent example of health effects on Fukushima children is
observed in the Fukushima prefectural health control survey for
children under 18. Amazingly, thyroid cysts or cysts were observed
among 43% of the subjects and among the girls between 6 to 10 years old,
the figures exceed 50%.

この調査のリーダーの医師である山下俊一氏は、２０００年に長崎でも２５０人の児童の甲状腺調査をしており、この時のう胞を保有していた児童はわず
か２人（０．８%）でした。さらに若い人については転移についての危険性も過去の論文で発表しています。これに対して医師らは、現在のエコー検査機器の画
像は１ｍｍあれば検出できるが、１０年以上前のエコー検査の画像は粗いため、５ｍｍ以上でないと正確な比較ができないと言い逃れをしています。
The leader of this health survey team, Dr. Shunichi Yamashita had
conducted thyroid echo tests on 250 children in Nagasaki in 2000, and
only 2 (0.8%) were detected with cysts. However, Fukushima health
survey team made an excuse that the current echo machine is more refined
and can detect 1mm nodule image while the one in 10 years ago detected
only 5mm or above.

そこで北海道がんセンター院長の西尾正道医師が、５．１ｍｍ以上ののう胞を比べたところ、福島では３８１１４人中９７０人で２．５４％であり、同じ
山下氏がチェルノブイリで事故１０年後に行った調査では０．５％程度なので、事故１年半後の福島は、チェルノブイリの５倍も検出されているのです2。As for this issue, Dr. Masamichi Nishio, the director of Hokkaido
Cancer Center compared children with cysts more than 5.1mm in Fukushima
one and half years after the accident with the one in Chernobyl 10 years
after the accident. Dr. Nishio said that already 5 times more children
are detected with cysts of 5.1mm or larger in Fukushima compared to
Chernobyl and this figure could be bigger as the time elapses.
また、福島医大の内分泌外科教授鈴木真一が甲状腺ガンの進行が遅いと言っていますが、子供は進行が早いし、転移の可能性があることも留意しなければ
なりません。また、放射線被曝で現れる症状は甲状腺ガンばかりではありません。放射線で引き起こされるのは甲状腺ガンだけではありません。肺がんその他の
呼吸器疾患も注意していかねばならないと思います。大量の放射性核種を吸入してしまった以上、当然呼吸器系の異常も予測されますし、現にチェルノブイリの
汚染地帯では呼吸器系疾患が多いと聞きます。５年間チェルノブイリの子供たちの医療支援をしてきた、現松本市長の菅谷医師は、「甲状腺ガン手術をした子供
たちの６人に１人がのちに肺がんに転移した」と言っています。
It is not only thyroid cancer which is caused by radiation. If
people have inhaled a large amount of radionuclides, respiratory
abnormalities surely can be predicted and I’ve heard and read that there
have been many respiratory diseases observed in Chernobyl contaminated
areas. According to Dr. Akira Sugenoya, who had worked in Belarus for 5
years for medical support, one in 6 thyroid cancer child patient later
developed lung cancer.

甲状腺学会は、福島の子供の甲状腺検査を、県の医療機関以外で行ってはならないというセカンドオピニオンを求める声を遮断する行為を行っています。
それでも半年後に出現したというケースや、他の病院で検査を受けた福島の子供が、県の調査で受けたよりも多くののう胞が見つかったという例もあります。２年後の検査では、のう胞や結節の状態の悪化や、リンパへの転移なども危惧され、より頻繁に検査をする必要があります。また前述したように東京で５ｍｍのの
う胞で甲状腺ガンだった患者の例をとれば、大きさで判断するのは危険であり、大きさに関わらず、細胞診が受けられる体制を作るべきです。
Moreover, some medical circles send out more concrete messages.
Thyroid Association announced a written notice to thyroid doctors in
Japan not to conduct further thyroid tests on Fukushima children, which
hampers the parents from getting second opinions or second test.
However, some parents managed to get the second opinion and some found
more nodules in their children’s thyroid. The interval of 2 years for
the next examination may become too late for some patients considering
the possibility of aggravation of cysts and nodules, metastasis of
cancer to lymph and other tissues. Also as I mentioned before, there
was a patient whose nodule was only 5mm and cancer was found.
Irrespective of the size, biopsy should be available.

また、残念なことに２０１２年9月11日には甲状腺ガンの第一号が発表されましたが、この子どもの家族は、なんと警戒区域から道一つ挟んだだけの場所に居住していたと言います。そして同日「事故との因果関係はない」と発表されました。
しかし、その後驚くニュースが流れたのですが、その前から関係者間で会の存在自体も口止めされていた秘密会が行われたと言います。甲状腺ガン第一号
の発表の前には、「被曝による甲状腺異常ではない」とする模擬の質疑応答の練習までなされ、このことが公になってから、委員会長の山下俊一氏が謝罪すると
いう事態にまで及びました3。
On September 11, 2012, regretfully, the first thyroid cancer patient
was found only a road outside of the evacuation zone. At the
announcement of this sad news, the causal relationship with the
radiation was denied promptly by the committee members of the
prefecture.
However, immediately after this announcement, it was revealed that
secret meetings had been held among the committee members and the
members were told not to reveal the existence of the meeting (http://enenews.com/govt-held-inappropriate-secret-meetings-about-human-health-impacts-from-fukushima-crisis).

そしてその後、もうひとり甲状腺ガンの疑いがある子供が１人発生しましたが、なぜかその子供の２次検査の結果がどうであったか、まったく報道がされ
ず、福島県の福島県民健康調査担当者に聞いても「結果はしばらく前には出ていると思いますが、私たちのほうでは結果を知らされておりません。」と回答をも
らえませんでした。私の知人の医師は、この２人目の子供がガンであったことを聞いており、さらに３人目の未成年者の甲状腺ガンが発生したことを、患者を直
接知っていて把握しています。しかし１人目以降の福島の子供の甲状腺ガンは伏せられているのです！
Even more serious issue is that the government stopped announcement
of further thyroid cancer cases. There was a additional case of a child
who needed further testing in 2011 October, but the result has been
concealed. On my telephone inquiry, the person in charge at Fukushima
prefecture health examination told me, “We are not aware of the result,
though the result should have been released sometime ago.” On top of
that a doctor I know directly know the case of another child who got
thyroid cancer in Fukushima. In total, at least three children got
thyroid cancer in Fukushima, but only one case has been released so far.

とうとう悲しい知らせが2013年2月13日に訪れました。ネットとローカルニュースで（全国放送でなぜかやらない）38000人の福島の子供たち
の検査の結果、合計3名の甲状腺がんが出て手術をしたというのです。子供の甲状腺がんは国立がんセンターのデータでは、10万人に0.6人程度なので、
18万人なら「1人」が平均的ですから、その約10倍に当たります。しかも他に7人の子どもたちにガンが強く疑われているというのです。
A sad news came finally on February 13, it was reported on the net
and local news that 3 thyroid cancer patients were found among Fukushima
children out of 38000 who had gone through medical inspection.
Compared to the regular thyroid cancer incident rate among children with
1 out of 180000 according to National Cancer Center data, so this is
approcimately10 times high! Moreover, 7 more children are now highly
suspected to have cancer among the above children.

これは大変な事件であり、本来であれば世界のトップニュースに当たることだと私は思います。しかしそもそも唯一の国営放送であるＮＨＫが、福島の子供の甲状腺検査のニュースそのものをほとんどやっていないため、不思議なほど騒がれていません。
This is such a scandal and I believe this could be on the top news in
the world. However, since the sole state-owned TV station NHK, has not
broadcasted on Fukushima children’s thyroid examination itself, this
scandal is amazingly not known to public.

それどころか、この被災地の市民から最も非難されている山下俊一医師は、元日本医師会長で世界医師会長でもあった武見太郎氏の名前にちなんだ「武見
記念賞」を２０１２年１２月に受賞しました。米国からは全米放射線防護委員会ＮＣＲPの名誉会長Warren K.
Sinclair氏の名前にちなんだ基調講演「福島原発事故と総合的健康リスク管理」を、事故から２年目の２０１３年３月１１日に行いました。なんという
皮肉でしょうか。http://www.ncrponline.org/Annual_Mtgs/2013_Ann_Mtg/Yamashita-
WKS.pdfが立て続けに送られています。
On the contrary, Dr. Shunichi Yamashita, who has been gathering the
most criticisms from the citizens by nuclear accident affected areas,
was honored with “Dr. Takemi Memorial Award” (Dr. Takemi is the name of
former president of Japan Medical Association and also World Medical
Association) in December 2012. This simple fact shows how medical
associations are corrupt with interested groups.
Dr. Yamashita was also chosen as the speaker for Warren K. Sinclair
Keynote Address (Dr. Sinclair is the NCRP President Emeritus) on this
coming March 11, 2013, 2 years after the nuclear accident. How ironic
this is! http://www.ncrponline.org/Annual_Mtgs/2013_Ann_Mtg/Yamashita-WKS.pdf

さて、この３．１１の山下俊一米国講演会ですが、発表の６４ページhttp://www.ncrponline.org/Annual_Mtgs
/203_Ann_Mtg/Yamashita.pdfで、非常に重要な発言がありました。福島事故後に、若い男性でも肝臓機能障害や高尿酸血が、そして
成人や年配者で高血圧、グルコース代謝不全、腎不全が増加していると発表しました。今現在起きている健康障害は、一番大事な問題であり、本来であれば予防
原則にのっとるべきであるのに、山下氏は、何の根拠もなく、すべて生活の変化や精神的ストレスのせいにしており、放射線による原因はあえて避けています。
上記の症状は、チェルノブイリの汚染地帯でも見られた症状です。
In Dr. Yamashita’s March 11 speech, there was an important report on health damages. (See page 64 of http://www.ncrponline.org/Annual_Mtgs/203_Ann_Mtg/Yamashita.pdf)
Liverdysfunction and hyperuricemia were increased among young male and
hypertension, glucose dysmetabolism, renal dysfunciton were increased
among adulthood especially aged people. These factual health hazards
should be the most pressing issue, which should be focused. However,
Dr. Yamashita attributes these symptoms to solely change of life styles
and mental stress, avoiding radiation effects purposefully. These
symptoms were commonly observed in contaminated Chernobyl areas.

また、同講演会では、チェルノブイリで明確に起きていた遺伝子レベルの異常についても話されました。FOXE１という遺伝子に、放射能による甲状腺
がんとの因果関係が明確な異常が観察されており、山下医師は2010年にこの研究論文の執筆者の一人でもあります。
（http://www.ncrponline.org/Annual_Mtgs/203_Ann_Mtg/Yamashita.pdf の24ページ）
山下氏は、日本においてはこの問題に全く触れません。そして福島では、遺伝子の検査は全く行われておりません。
In the same presentation, Dr. Yamashi mentioned about the genetic
abnormality confirmed in Chernobyl. FOXE 1 has been observed as a
genetic deteriminant for thyroid cancer and Dr. Yamashita was one of the
authors for the 2010 study. (http://www.ncrponline.org/Annual_Mtgs/203_Ann_Mtg/Yamashita.pdf page 24) However, he never mentioned about it in Japan and never conducted any genetic tests of Fukushima residents.

これは、遺伝子レベルで福島の住民を検査したならば、放射能との因果関係が明白になってしまうため、隠ぺい工作として日本では沈黙しているのではな
いかと考えます。こうしている間にも、汚染地帯の子供たちには遺伝子レベルで悪影響が及ぼされているに違いないのです。これはまさに医師や科学者らの、国
家権力に加担した犯罪だと思います。
I believe that Dr. Yamashita keeps his silence regarding this
genetic study in fear that the apparent adiation effects on Fukushima
residents could be revealed through genetic test results. Meanwhile,
children in Fukushima are being exposed to radiation day to day, with
their genes being affected by radiation. I simply believe this is a
crime by doctors/scientists who take the side of state power.

山下俊一医師のような人が、日本甲状腺学会の会長であること、またＷＨＯ放射線緊急医療準備・応答ネットワークの所長であることは非常に危険な話か
と存じます。と言いますのも、山下医師は事故直後に、「１００μＳｖ／hに達するまでは外に出ても全く問題ない」と発表して、その１０日後に、
「１０μＳＶ／hの言い間違えであった」と訂正したくらいのお粗末ぶりだからです。
Truly, it is a very scary fact that a doctor like Shunichi Yamashita
is the President of the Japan Thyroid Association and Director of the
WHO Collaborating Center for Research on Radiation Emergency Medical
Preparedness and Response Network. He was the one who told Fukushima
residents, “It is no problem to be outside until the air dose will reach
100 micro Sv/h,” and corrected himself 10 days later on March 22,
saying, “It was 10 micro Sv/h, not 100 micro Sv/h. I apologizes.”

もうひとつ、知り合いの医師から驚くべき話を聞いております。その医師の話では、被ばく医療シンポジウムで放射線指導医が「首の動脈硬化の超音波検
査の時、結節等所見があっても、検査技師には甲状腺の写真や記録を残すな。」と講演したと言います4。所見を書くなとは見たことのない、通達であったと言
います。これのみでなく、この医師によれば、病院内で、放射線被曝の話題を避けるような自己規制は広くみられると言います。放射能汚染された日本で、現場
の医師たちがこの問題に真剣に取り組まないことは、非常に危機的なことかと思います。
Moreover, I heard quite an amazing story, from a doctor I know.
According to him, at a radiation related symposium for medical workers, a
radiation expert doctor stated in his speech, “At the time of echo
examination for arteriosclerosis in neck area, tell the echo technician
not to leave a photo or written record of thyroid even if a cyst is
found there.” According to this doctor, he has never heard of this kind
of restriction since he became a doctor decades before. Not only that,
he mentioned that similar kinds of self –restraints are widely observed
in hospitals avoiding the topic of radiation exposure. It is quite a
matter of concern that Japanese doctors themselves avoid the issues of
radiation exposure in their daily practices in this contaminated land.
Sources:
1. Fukushima prefecture thyroid test progress and result as of November 1, 2012http://www.pref.fukushima.jp/imu/kenkoukanri/241118koujyousen.pdf (Japanese)
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Evacuation

In Fukushima there was 2 million population including 360,000 children.

The Japanese government evacuated about 100,000 (87,000 out of 20km radios of the plant), and most of them are still in Fukushima prefecture. 65% of Fukushima prefecture became the radiation control area (a level of the contamination is more than 37,000Bq/m2), so therefore most of them are still in radioactively contaminated area unless they evacuated out of Fukushima prefecture into safe area voluntarily without any financial help from the government. Voluntary evacuees within Fukushima prefecture is 23,551, voluntary evacuees out of Fukushima prefecture is 27,776 as of 22/9/11. Even Fukushima-city which is 50km away from the plant is no longer safe, especially for children. The government statistics shows that only about 36,000(including about 20,000children, ) left Fukushima prefecture. And most of them left Fukushima Prefecture voluntarily without any financial support from the government.(October 2012)

Food Safaty

Amount of allowable ionizing radiation in foodincluding rice in Japan is now 100BQ/kg for cesium.

So this could mean that contaminated food which they can’t sell in Japan could be exported to the countries that have more relaxed regulations, such as EU countries and Thai (500) and Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippine, Vietnam, Malaysia (1000) and USA (1200).

*A Woman Who Refuses to Give In to A New Nuke PlantPlease send her a postcard: Atsuko Ogasawara, owner of “Asako House”, built in the center of the planned Ohma Nuclear Power Plant premises. She would appreciate it if you could send a post card (just with a few words is ok). Receiving a mail as much as possible helps her position to keep up anti nuclear campaign. Here is “Asako House”’s address: Ms. Atsuko Ogasawara, c/o Asako House, 396 Aza Ko-okoppe, Oh-aza Ohma, Ohma Machi, Shimokita Gun, Aomori

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Fukushima disaster is not over. It seems getting worse. Continuous leaking of ionizing radiation into the atmosphere (10million Bq/hour or more) and into the sea.. There seems no end and no solution to stop it. There is no good result in decontamination work. 27 children developed thyroid cancer. More reports of deformed babies. More people of dying of leukemia and sudden death.… Yet the Japanese Government wants all evacuees to go back to their home land by 2020. Even trying to sell nuclear to other countries, claiming it’s going to be safe. I hope information from this blog to give you views from the victim’s side of stories, health issues and related information on nuclear disaster, especially about Fukushima disaster. We should remember and learn lessons from ongoing tragedy happening in Chernobyl and Fukushima.

100% nuclear free: Japan shut down its last reactor on 15/9/13 – There has been no shortage of electricity since 3.11

*IAEA ＆ WHO downplays the danger of radiation. (Refer to the comment on Feb.2012)

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant up date news

(October 10, 2012)

The Fukushima disaster is far from over, with 10million BQ every hour of ionizing radiation (80% is coming out of reactor 2) leaking continuously into the air (as of October, 2012). No human can get near to the reactors. Even robot can only stay a couple of hours. Reactor 4 is still the most worrying, with 1535 spent fuel rods in the pool. A further6, 375 spent fuel rods are stored in a shared pool only 50 meters away from the Reactor 4. After the disaster, the maximum allowable dose of ionized radiation was raised to 250mSv/yfrom 100 mSv/y for Tepco workers (3000 workers every day) until the situation is restored to normal. Because of the dangerously high level of ionized radiation at the site, they can only work for a limited time, which makes progress slow, and more and more workers have been exposed to the maximum radiation, which means that it could be difficult to find enough people to work there continuously during the next at least 40 years work of decommissioning.

Nobody knows how and when we will be able to say that the Fukushima disaster is over.